Henrik Sedin another pro wearing Tuff-n-Lite Hockey

Vancouver Canucks star Henrik Sedin loves wearing the pro thin Tuff-n-Lite Hockey cut resistant skate socks!

Michal Handzus wearing cut resistant skate socks

NHL Los Angeles King center Michal Handzus is skating with Tuff-n-Lite Hockey protection!

MARTIN BRODEUR WEARING TUFF-N-LITE HOCKEY SKATE SOCKS

New Jersey Devils Brodeur, Clarkson, White and Langenbrunner are all wearing Tuff-n-Lite Hockey gear!

Dion Phaneuf now wearing Tuff-n-LIte Hockey protection

Dion Phaneuf: Underware model?

From safer stockings to protective longjohns, Dion Phaneuf is taking no chances when it comes to avoiding being sliced open again.

Having been out more than a month after being seriously gashed behind the knee by the skate of Ottawa’s Peter Regin during a Nov. 2 game at the Air Canada Centre, the Maple Leafs captain is testing a variety of preventative equipment options he hopes will keep history from repeating itself.

“I’ve suffered cuts twice in three years that have kept me out of action for extended periods of time so I’m open to anything that will help,” Phaneuf said in the ACC press box during the second intermission of the Leafs-Boston Bruins game Saturday night.

“I think it’s important, especially at the grass-roots level. I remember when they made neck guards a requirement in minor hockey. Maybe some day some of this equipment will help too.”

Various companies including Nike and Tuff-N-Lite Hockey are working on projects to do just that.

Phaneuf has been working out with socks he says “are not cut proof but are more cut resistant.” He also is having long underwear made that should have the same protective effect.

“It’s personal preference for every player,” he said. “But at least these things will give me a fighting chance.”

Given what Phaneuf has been through, that’s all he can ask for.

Modano wrist laceration

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Mike Modano undergoes surgery on lacerated wrist.

Detroit Red Wings forward Mike Modano has undergone surgery after suffering a laceration from a skate blade on his right wrist during a game against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday night. The veteran will be out of the lineup indefinitely depending on the progress of his recovery.

Modano left the game against Columbus with about six minutes left in the second period. He returned to Detroit following the game. The surgery was performed this morning at the Detroit Medical Center.

Modano's injury included one severed tendon and slight damage to a nerve.

Modano, 40, signed a one-year contract with the Red Wings over the summer after playing his entire career with the Dallas Stars franchise.

The Michigan native has two goals and six assists in 20 games this season.

Kevlar hot and uncomfortable - GM Toronto Maple Leafs

This is from an article quoting Brian Burke re Kevlar skate socks:

"We do have a number of players wearing (them). I know the reaction of (some of ) the guys who tried them was that they're very hot uncomfortably warm."

They should be wearing Tuff-n-Lite Hockey skate socks!

Columbus Blue Jackets Prospect Will Weber Has Throat Slashed By Skate

Jackets prospect's throat slashed
By QMI Agency




Columbus Blue Jackets prospect Will Weber had his throat slashed by a skate during a U.S. collegiate game on the weekend.

Weber, a defenceman with the Miami (Ohio) Redhawks who was taken by the Blue Jackets in the second round of the 2007 draft, had his neck cut by a skate during the first period of Saturday's game against Northern Michigan.

The 6-foot-4, 225-pound blueliner from Gaylord, Mich., underwent surgery to close the gash on the left side of his neck, just under his chin line, at a hospital in Cincinnati. The wound required more than 100 stitches and 15 staples to close.

"It was a pretty close call," Weber told the Gaylord Herald Times. "I was in surgery for about an hour. Everything went well, it was apparently just a cut through the muscle and it nicked an artery. I am going back to Cincinnati Friday to see what my recovery timetable will be."

David Nerman of Tuff N' Lite Hockey TV Interview (French)

Direct Link: Le président de Tuff N'Lite présente un bas de hockey qui résiste aux coupures de patins 

Clearance From NHL -Press Release

MONTREAL, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ - Tuff-N-Lite(TM) Hockey, based in Montreal, Canada, today announced that its' unique line of cut-resistant skate socks has received clearance for use in NHL games, by the National Hockey League.

The specialty protective equipment company has continued to grow, since launching an innovative line of high-performance, cut-resistant garments in 2009, that provide key protection for hockey players, that traditional equipment does not.

Tuff-N-Lite(TM) Hockey protective hockey socks are already being used by a number of NHL hockey players, including Travis Moen of the Montreal Canadiens, who was protected from sustaining a potential career-ending injury last season.

Key benefits of Tuff-N-Lite(TM) Hockey skate socks include:

- The products essentially look, feel and stretch like athletic socks,
while offering prevention of potential career-threatening injuries.
- Tuff-N-Lite(TM) Hockey skate socks use Tuff-N-Lite Cool(TM) patented
technology, that conducts heat away from players, keeping them
comfortable and dry throughout the game.
- Tuff-N-Lite(TM) Hockey garments use light, breathable fabrics, which
are not woven, so they stretch in all directions, increasing player
comfort.
- Tuff-N-Lite(TM) Hockey is the first supplier in the industry to use
Micro-Texpur(R) technology, which is an eco-green antimicrobial agent.
The innovative technologies and patents created and used to-date, for the first generation of protective gear are also currently being utilized to develop other leading protection for professional and amateur hockey players and hockey enthusiasts alike, including: wrist guards, goalie leg tubes and slash guards, among others.

Products are currently available (USA) online and distributed by Arrow Hockey and Sports Corp.

Products are currently available (Canada) at select retailers including Source For Sports, Pro Hockey Life, Hockey Experts, Sports Rousseau, and Play It Again Sports.

New Products launched

The full length cut resistant goalie leg tube and slash guard powered by Zoombang are now for sale on our site!

CUT RESISTANT GOALIE TUBE

Our antimicrobial treatment kills STAPH infection on contact

Things we never think of! I love playing the game and never think about catching some deadly infection. I had a parent come up to me recently when I was showing our socks to a team. She told me her son had nearly died when he contracted a STAPH infection. Being a parent myself, this really got to me as her son is now my son's age. I work with some of the most talented people I have met that make my products. They also invented Micro-Texpur the Eco-Green antimicrobial that we treat all our gear with. Micro-Texpur kills STAPH on contact. We keep striving to be the best not only in cut resistant protection, but also in giving players protection from the things they can't see. Please take the time and read about Micro-Texpur.
We have your best interest in mind.
Cheers
David

Full Length Cut Resistant GOALIE TUBE

The team at Tuff-n-Lite Hockey are very excited to introduce our latest innovative product! We had been asked to design a piece for goalies and are launching our full leg goalie tube in a couple of weeks. The same high performance fibers that are in our socks are used in this ankle to mid-thigh leg tube. It will be one size and for the younger goalies they can fold down any extra material so that it fits. Bonus is as they grow into those strapping 6'2 goalies we can never score on, it will still fit. I have designed the leg tube to be used with a garter system or under a compression short. Having spoken to NHL trainers and finding out most goalies wear garters. that is how I went about designing it. Feel free to get in touch with me at david@tuffnlitehockey.com if you would like more info.
Cheers
David

Manitoba Moose Make Tuff-n-Lite Hockey Skate Sock Mandatory

The Vancouver Canucks farm team, the Manitoba Moose of the AHL will be skating in our protective gear this up-coming season.
They are the first AHL team to make protective skate socks mandatory for their players. They compared our Tuff-n-Lite skate socks to others on the market made of Kevlar and we were chosen to protect all the players. Their goalies will be wearing our new full length cut resistant ankle to mid-thigh goalie leg tubes.
We are proud to be have been chosen'

Too many young players getting cut!

I started this "quest" of making a cut resistant protective skate sock when I saw an NHL player get cut and almost have his career ended. That was my "blink" - my eureka moment. I just got back from some shows in Toronto and met coaches and parents of young kids and teens who have been cut. Pisses me off that it happened to them. Really does. Happened before there were cut resistant skate socks. I am a dad and would do anything to protect my son. My protective socks will prevent serious injuries to players and just as the NY Rangers have made my sock mandatory, the minor hockey associations should be looking to do the same. We really have to step up and work at making sure all our kids are wearing this protective gear just as they have to wear a helmet and neck guard. PLEASE if you are an association get in touch with me and lets work together! As parents we ahve to educate the boards there are new innovative options protective options out there.
There, you have my rant and venting. Hearing the stories and seeing the scars really bothered me....let's see what we can do to prevent further injuries.
Cheers
David

June 11th and 12th at OMHA Consumer Show in Toronto

We will be at the OMHA consumer show in Toronto June 11 and June 12th. Come by and see our innovative cut resistant protection and our new cut resistant slash guard!

Tuff-n-Lite Hockey attending OHL trainers conference June 8

Tuff-n-Lite Hockey will be at the OHL trainers convention in Toronto June 8th.

We will come to your team in the Montreal area

If your team is in the Montreal area and you would like us to come and explain our innovative technology to the parents and players, please contact us. We give team discounts.

Tuff-n-Lite Hockey protective skate socks work for Michael Cammalleri

Michael Cammalleri says the protective skate socks helped him avoid serious injury.
"I had a blade go right through my boot," Cammalari said pointing to his ankle. "when I took it off, there was a red mark, but no cut."

Our protective skate socks have protected two NHLer's from serious injury.

Our mission is to protect all players at all levels from skate cuts.

Jordon Staal cut by skate

Pittsburgh Penguins center Jordan Staal had surgery to repair a damaged tendon on the top of his foot but will not miss the remainder of the playoffs, coach Dan Bylsma said.

"Clarification on the Jordan Staal situation. There's been a number of rumors and it is not an Achilles, he is not ruled out for the remainder of the playoffs," Bylsma said Saturday morning after the Penguins' practice.

The Selke Trophy finalist as the league's best defensive forward was cut by the skate ofCanadiens defenseman P.K. Subban during a collision near the Pittsburgh blueline midway through the Penguins' 6-3 victory Friday in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series.

He went to the bench in obvious pain, then went to the Pittsburgh locker room at the next stoppage in play.

"He had a procedure to repair a tendon from a cut on the top of his foot and he will be day to day from here on out. So he's not out for the remainder of the playoffs," Bylsma said.

The 21-year-old has never missed a game due to injury in his career, but that streak likely will end with Game 2 on Sunday.

Textiles Intelligence Writes About Tuff-n-Lite Hockey

SPORTS APPAREL

TUFF-N-LITE HOCKEY HAS INTRODUCED A CUT RESISTANT SOCK FOR ICE HOCKEY
Canada-based Tuff-n-Lite Hockey, a distributor of high performance cut resistant apparel for ice hockey and ice skating, has introduced a new cut resistant sock for ice hockey called Tuff-n-Lite Hockey Skate Sock. The fabric from which the sock is made is said to be as “soft and flexible as cotton” but is “ounce for ounce up to 15 times stronger than steel”.

In addition to its cut resistant properties, the fabric features Tuff-n-Lite Cool—technology which conducts heat away from the body, and helps the wearer to stay cool and dry during hockey games. Furthermore, the sock incorporates Micro-Texpur, an eco-friendly nanotechnology based antimicrobial treatment developed by the USA-based company Micro-Texpur.

The treatment is applied to the sock by Supreme Corporation, a USA-based producer of high performance textiles and a licensee of Micro-Texpur. During the treatment process, the sock is dipped in an aqueous solution containing an antimicrobial agent which binds to the fibres from which the yarns in the sock are made. The sock is then dried, the water evaporates, and the additive remains attached to the fibres. The agent is able to eliminate the bacteria responsible for the development of odour. Also, it is capable of eliminating the fungus responsible for causing athlete’s foot, a common foot infection, and mildew.
The treatment does not contain any chemicals which are harmful to humans or the environment.
Tuff-n-Lite Hockey claims that the treatment can be washed up to 40 times without affecting its performance.

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Paramedic thanks Tuff-n-Lite Hockey!

I would like to thank David and his partners for coming up with such a brilliant idea. I have worked for over 20 years as a paramedic most of them in the Arenas taking care of hockey injuries due to lack of proper equipment used by the players. Just last month we had a 14 year old who cut the tendon on his lower leg because he felt it made him faster not to use the proper socks, wear shorter shin pads and cut the top off of his skate boot. If only he wore the socks by tuff n lite hockey then he would not have had to sit out the playoffs due to the 10 stitches he incurred that night. I showed him the socks that David gave to him and had him try them in a spring practice, boy was he impressed with the comfort, the feel and the over all protection. He will not play with out them now.

Keep protective socks and wrist guards away from velcro

When storing the skate socks/wrist guards or washing them, keep them separate from velcro. They really get stuck if they come together. If that should happen, just pull them apart. Should it look like some fibers were pulled, don't worry, it does not effect the performance of the sock...

Innovative Cut Resistant Wrist Protector With Slash Guard Coming Soon!!!

We are working on an innovative new wrist protector with a guard to protect you from stick slashes. Testing it as we speak! Available soon.

Cheers

Bruin Player Has Wrist Cut By Skate

TORONTO — It’s rare to see officials stop play without first whistling an infraction, but the referees blew the whistle last night in what amounted to a 9-1-1 call with 10:24 remaining in the first period. Dennis Seidenberg, standing in the Boston penalty box, needed help.

“I wish the guy in the penalty box had just opened the door,’’ said Maple Leafs coach Ron Wilson, noting that Seidenberg, sent to the box for boarding, was bleeding profusely from his left wrist and needed urgent medical attention. “He had a bad slice. When you see someone bleeding like that, you have to stop play.’’

Seidenberg, his wrist cut when he boarded Nikolai Kulemin, a hit that caused Kulemin’s skate blade to clip the German defenseman, was bleeding from the moment he entered the penalty box. He attempted to get the attention of the on-ice officials as he entered the box, but his pleas were ignored. Play resumed, and Seidenberg kept bleeding, and it was another 46 seconds off the clock before the officiating crew realized the wound needed care.

Seidenberg made his way to a local hospital to have the gash closed and the hand examined. According to Bruins coach Claude Julien, Seidenberg checked out OK and should be able to play tomorrow night in Washington.

“No tendon damage,’’ said Julien. “Everything seems OK. It just took a little while to check him out.’’

Doctor endorses Tuff-n-Lite Hockey protective gear

I think the Tuff-n- Lite Hockey skate socks and wrists guards are a great product. As an emergency physcian who has also been involved in hockey all my life as a player and coach, I have seen and treated a number of serious lacerations over the years, some from hockey skates. The lower leg and forearm/wrist area have a number of important structures including tendons and blood vessels. Tendon lacerations are devastating injuries. The patient requires surgery, casting for a number of weeks followed by long periods of rehabilitation. Some patients never return to full function despite the best treatment. For the small price of the Tuff-n- Lite Hockey skate socks and wrist guards, hockey players can protect their wrists and lower legs from serious lacerations, including tendon lacerations. I fully endorse the Tuff-n-Lite Hockey skate socks and wrists guards.

Rob Lepage B.Sc.(H.K.), M.D., C.C.F.P.(E.M.)
Emergency Physician and Trauma Team Leader
Sudbury Regional Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Northern Ontario School of Medicine

Should Protective Skate Socks Be Mandatory?

Players and parents have to start thinking of Tuff-n-Lite Hockey protective skate socks and wrist guards as protective gear. We wear shin guards, neck guards, face masks, elbow pads, helmets and other protective equipment to prevent serious injury. So why not protect our ankles and calfs?

You don't have to be in the NHL to have serious accidents happen. I love the game and I love playing it. I can't imagine skating without protection on my feet and wrist anymore.

Parents protecting kids with Tuff-n-Lite Hockey

Protecting our kids is a priority. Hockey is a fun sport but the unexpected can happen and parents are aware of this. That is why they are buying and trusting Tuff-n-Lite Hockey skate socks to protect their kids. Skate lacerations happen more often then we hear about at all levels of hockey. Tuff-n-Lite Hockey protection offers comfort, coolness and high cut resistant protection. Let the kids play and have fun. Leave the protection to us....

The Gazette: A hockey sock tougher than steel

Tuff-n-Lite socks are cut-resistant and have already saved one injury
 
BY DAVE STUBBS, THE GAZETTE, MARCH 20, 2010
 
MONTREAL – The small, nearly invisible scrape is about ankle-high on the inside of Travis Moen's left foot. And the tiny nick delights David Nerman, whose curiosity and salesmanship might have saved the Canadiens forward an injury much worse.

Moen was wearing a pair of Nerman's Tuff-n-Lite Hockey cut- resistant skate socks beneath his red, white and blue uniform stockings when he was clipped by a blade during a game last week. He suffered just a superficial scrape, less than a half- inch in length.

Tonight, Canadiens defenceman Andrei Markov will play his second game in Toronto since he suffered a sliced foot tendon at the Air Canada Centre on Oct. 1, the team's first game of the season. Markov, who underwent surgery and missed 35 games after being accidentally carved by the skate of goaltender Carey Price, will be wearing Tuff-n-Lites.
Another dozen or more Canadiens will be in them, too.

In the rapidly evolving world of hockey equipment, Nerman is not selling socks as much as he's marketing protection. And he's hoping to convince minor-hockey parents and beer-league players who spend huge money on gear that a $40 investment will safeguard the calves and ankles.

Markov's messy injury followed last season's Achilles tendon cut suffered by then-leading scorer Robert Lang, who would miss the season's final 32 games and four more in the playoffs.
"If Markov and Lang were wearing this sock," Canadiens equipment manager Pierre Gervais said this week, "they wouldn't have missed a game." That's music to the ears of Nerman, a Montreal-born and raised actor, enthusiastic beer-league hockey player and lifelong Canadiens fan who says he "had a eureka! moment" when he saw Markov limp off Toronto ice 51/2 months ago.

You might even say this new sock has been heaven-sent. For the past decade, Nerman has portrayed Albert, the smiling manservant angel to Montreal-native Linda Kash in television commercials for Philadelphia Cream Cheese.

Last week, beaming as he walked for the first time into the Canadiens' Bell Centre dressing room, he looked like he'd passed through the pearly gates for real. On his way out, he shook hands with general manager Pierre Gauthier - who had been his Outremont baseball coach in the 1970s.
(Only once, in market research for a new product, has Albert uttered a word; the commercial never aired. "Albert seems to be every woman's fantasy - he says nothing and just does everything Linda wants," joked Nerman, who constantly is recognized as his alter-ego.) When he began his hockey-sock venture five months ago, Nerman knew nothing about fabric beyond the label of his shirt.

The 50-year-old did, however, know a lot about hockey, having skated practically since he could walk. Nerman has a banged-up body to show for his allegedly non-contact career, and now plays as often as four times per week in the T.M.R. Executive League with friends and business partners Tom Faludi and Max Maislin.

Nerman's hockey skills earned him a role in the series Lance et Compte when it began in 1986, playing Quebec Nationals' Steve Bradshaw. He still has goosebumps from carrying the Stanley Cup overhead at the roaring Quebec Colisée during a two-minute filming window before the NHL's Nordiques took on the Boston Bruins.
"I lived my fantasy," he said, grinning.

Markov's October injury got Nerman thinking. That, and Lang's Achilles tendon, and the two horrible lacerations to the lower leg suffered by Vancouver Canucks' Kevin Bieksa this year and two seasons ago.

So he began studying cut-resistant materials that might work in hockey socks. Nerman says his naïveté probably didn't hurt; had he known much about the garment trade, he'd probably have turned tail.

He learned about the properties of cut-resistant fabrics Kevlar, Dyneema and Spectra before he happened upon the North Carolina company Tuff-n-Lite, which was manufacturing for police and military applications a knitted fibre 15 times stronger than steel.

In short order, Nerman received a prototype 13-inch sock fashioned to his suggestions, and before long he formed a company division called Tuff-n-Lite Hockey.
While no fabric can claim to be cut-proof, his sock is practically impervious to a sharp blade. A recent lab test, simulating a 215-pound player slashing the material while skating 15 mph, showed virtually no compromise.

With the look, feel and stretch of cotton, the sock is in fact breathable armour that is cool to the touch, draws heat and moisture away from the skin and is odour- and fungus-free because of an Eco-Green antimicrobial treatment.

A prototype in hand, Nerman called on the Canadiens' Gervais at the team's Brossard practice rink. He left with samples of the socks worn by the team and a recommendation that he add two inches to his model's length.

"A few weeks later, David came in with these socks and I thought they were great," said Gervais, who ordered enough for the Bell Centre, Brossard and road-trip trunks.
Gervais said he'll get a dozen or more calls per season "from people who are inventing the greatest thing on Earth, but they disappear as quickly as they came." But he'll always listen, constantly on the lookout for means to better protect players and improve his equipment crew's efficiency. No matter the company or product, he will supply the Canadiens with the widest variety of the best modern equipment and let players make their choice.

Of course, hockey's creatures of habit or superstition aren't easily convinced to try something new, even if it has Gervais's endorsement. Exhibit A: the over-boot skate guard that only some on the Canadiens are wearing.

But more than half the team is pulling on the Tuff-n-Lite socks because of a feel very much like what they're accustomed to and an improved moisture control. The superior protection is an invisible bonus, to which Moen will attest.

The sock is now worn by the Canadiens, Dallas Stars, Atlanta Thrashers, Carolina Hurricanes and some on the Canucks. The Florida Panthers came calling on Thursday.

A wristguard also has been introduced, and Nerman says additional pieces, like neck protectors and undergarments, are in the works. The products soon will be more widely available at retail, but for now can be ordered through the company website.

If the pros are the marketing summit, for Nerman the Canadiens are the tallest peak.

As a boy, he worshipped the Forum ice on which they skated. And now he's outfitting their feet.

For more on the product, go to tuffnlitehockey.com
dstubbs@thegazette.canwest.com


Original Story: Faceoff.com

Tuff-n-Lite ® Hockey Introduction Video on YouTube

Tuff-n-Lite ® Hockey Poster

Check out the new Tuff-n-Lite® Hockey Poster which gives you a look at our packaging and at the socks and wrist guards as worn.

Tyler Marsh: Defenseman still doesn't know how he severed tendon

"More than three months later, Tyson Marsh still doesn't know how he suffered a severed tendon just above his right ankle.

All the Alaska Aces defenseman knows is one second he was killing a penalty and a couple ticks later something was horribly wrong -- his right leg could not support him and he was reduced to hopping on his left leg to try to get to the bench."
Read the full story: 41 games later, Ace returns

Tuff-n-Lite® Hockey Cut Resistant Skate Sock Video

Montreal's Radio Team 990 interviews Tuff-n-Lite® Hockey

We were interviewed by the Montreal radio station Team 990 yesterday. Listen to the interview below.

Michael Del Zotto severely cut by Evgeny Malkin's skate

This is why we are committed to providing the best cut protection possible for hockey players of all levels, professional and amateur.

Tuff-n-Lite ® Hockey in Vancouver 2010

At the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, the Canadian Olympic Men's Hockey Team and the United States Men's Olympic Hockey Team have received Tuff-n-Lite ® Hockey protective socks!

Hurricanes skating in Tuff-n-Lite ® Hockey protective socks.

The Carolina Hurricanes are the latest NHL team to order the protective skate socks.

Hainsey of the Atlanta Thrashers wearing and loving Tuff-n-Lite Hockey®.

Defenseman Ron Hainsey loves the comfort and coolness of Tuff-n-Lite ® Hockey protective skate socks.

The Dallas Stars order Tuff-n-Light ® Hockey Gear!

The Dallas Stars have become the second NHL team to order Tuff-n-Lite ® Hockey high performance cut resistant skate socks.

The Montreal Canadiens order Tuff-n-Lite ® Hockey skate socks

The Montreal Canadiens have become the first NHL team to order Tuff-n-Lite ® Hockey high performance cut resistant skate socks and are wearing them under game conditions.

Online Store set to Launch!

We are set to launch our online store at tuffnlitehockey.com within the next several weeks. You'll be able to order our hockey gear for shipment throughout North America.

Website Launched!

We've launched the new version of the tuffnlitehockey.com website. Watch this space for updates during the several weeks including the launch of our online store and our bilingual version (French / English).